Compliance Week regularly tracks various personnel moves, board appointments, product releases, customer wins, and industry gossip in the corporate governance realm. Submit announcements to Compliance Week’s Jaclyn Jaeger.

From the Regulators

The Securities and Exchange Commission has tapped Daniel Gallagher as deputy director of the agency’s Division of Trading and Markets, effective July 21. The newly created position gives the division two deputy directors to supervise the nation’s largest investment banks. The other is Robert Colby. Gallagher has served as counsel to SEC Chairman Christopher Cox since 2007 and previously provided legal guidance to ex-commissioner Paul Atkins.

Accounting Officers, Controllers

$1.4 billion New York-based iStar Financial has named David DiStaso chief accounting officer. DiStaso previously served as chief financial officer and controller at the Consumer Finance Division of CIT Group. In other news, the company elected Dale Anne Reiss to its board as an independent director, as well as a member of the audit committee. Reiss was a senior partner at Ernst & Young from 1995 until earlier this year.

Bechtold

Austin, Texas-based Opus Healthcare Solutions, a provider of clinical information systems, has named Ray Bechtold controller. Bechtold joined Opus after serving in a number of senior executive positions at Sage Software’s Austin offices, including chief operating officer and interim chief financial officer of its specialized solutions division.

Michael Baker Corp. has named Michael White vice president, controller, and chief accounting officer of its energy business segment. White comes to Baker from Gexa Energy Corp., where he had full accountability for all of the $650 million company’s financial and accounting functions.

Graham Corp., a maker of vacuum and heat transfer systems, has appointed Jennifer Condame chief accounting officer. Condame, who has served as the company’s controller since 1994, was previously an audit manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Thomas Weisel Partners has named Ryan Stroub, previously the head of Finance, to be chief accounting officer at the San Francisco-based investment bank.

Jeffrey Schwaneke, CPA, has been named corporate controller for Centene Corp. Schwaneke will oversee the company’s business activity and financial position in areas of income, expenses, and earnings for operations. He will report directly to Eric Slusser, Centene’s CFO. Schwaneke was previously controller at Novelis.

General Counsels, Corporate Secretaries

Isle of Capri Casinos has named Edmund Quatmann general counsel and secretary. Quatmann joins Isle of Capri Casinos from telecommunications company iPCS, where he served as senior vice president, general counsel, and secretary. Quatmann assumes the general counsel role from Allan Solomon, who will continue to serve as executive vice president.

Chief Risk, Compliance Officers

$1.2 billion Webster Financial Corp. has appointed Gerald Plush as chief risk officer in addition to his current duties as senior executive vice president and chief financial officer. To assist Plush, Douglas Hart has been named chief accounting officer.

Wilson

Dresdner Bank, a subsidiary of $156 billion Allianz, based in Munich, Germany, has tapped Thomas Wilson as chief risk officer. In addition, Wilson will remain as chief risk officer of Allianz, a role he has held since joining the company in October 2007. He succeeds Otto Steinmetz, who retired earlier this month.

Erlanger, Ky.-based Transfreight has named Areki (Alex) Tsujita to the newly created position of chief compliance officer. In this role, he will head Transfreight’s corporate governance and compliance functions.

Ameritrans Capital Corp. has hired Michael Feinsod as chief compliance officer. Feinsod has been a director of the company since December 2005 and is currently president of Ameritrans.

On the Board

$3.5 billion E-Trade Financial Corp. has named Joseph Sclafani to its board of directors. He will also serve on the finance and risk oversight committee. Sclafani is a former executive vice president and controller at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

$3 billion Collective Brands, owner of Payless ShoeSource and Stride Rite, has elected Matthew Ouimet to its board of directors. He will serve on the audit and finance committee. Ouimet is the president of the hotel group for Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide. With the addition of Ouimet, the Collective Brands’ board now consists of 10 directors, including nine independent directors.

Leinbach

$3.8 billion toymaker Hasbro has elected Tracy Leinbach to its board of directors. Leinbach spent more than 20 years with Ryder System, a global transportation, logistics, and supply chain company, where she most recently served as executive vice president and chief financial officer.

From the Vendors

Morrison & Foerster’s San Francisco office hired international tax lawyer Joseph Fletcher as a partner. Fletcher joins the firm from Holland & Knight and was previously a trial attorney at the Internal Revenue Service.

Lieberman

Business and regulatory compliance consulting firm MarketCounsel, and its affiliated securities industry law firm, the Hamburger Law Firm, has hired Paul Lieberman as counsel. Lieberman brings to MarketCounsel and the Hamburger Law Firm more than 30 years of experience, including former positions at Merrill Lynch, Citicorp/Citibank, the New York Stock Exchange, and the Securities and Exchange Commission.